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Liberty police, fire, county sheriff’s office unite for Sept. 11 commemoration
CLAY COUNTY — Starting at 8:34 a.m. Sept. 11, at the Veterans Memorial at the corner of Kansas and Water Streets, Liberty, join the Liberty Police Department, Liberty Fire Department and the Clay County Sheriff’s Office for a ceremony honoring and remembering the lives lost in the 9/11 attacks. Community members are invited to join…
Community Living
Labor Day marks transition from summer to autumn gardening
While the area heat doesn’t seem like it’s time to transition to fall gardening, University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein, suggests a list of gardening tasks to start in early September, in a recent press release. Harvest late-summer crops: Continue harvesting warm-season vegetables until they fall victim to cooler weather. Tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, and squash represent…
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Gallery | Week 1 Football
Kearney football against Belton and Smithville football against Harrisonville Friday, Aug. 28.
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Entertainment
MOVIE REVIEW: Finding Alaska disappointing
By Simonie WilsonDakota Fanning, who plays lead character Wendy, and all her formerly adventurous friends are hitting their early 30s and growing up, none more resistant to that natural process than Wendy herself in “The Sun Never Sets.” While her best friend is announcing her first pregnancy, Wendy clings to her comfortable two-year relationship with…
Opinion
Time to set bitterness aside
We humans have the ability to file both negative and positive experiences in our memory banks. The negative sometimes produce bitterness, a condition someone tagged a “saboteur of the spirit.”